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Today is the 6th day of the 41st week, the 14th day of the 10th month, the 288th day of 2016 [with only 71 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Bald and Free Day
- National Chocolate-Covered Insect Day
- National Costume Swap Day
- National Dessert Day
- National Family Bowling Day (or Kids Bowl Free Day)
- National FRUMP Day
- national lowercase day
- Spider-Man Day
- World Day Against the Death Penalty
- World Egg Day
- World Standards Day
On this day: In 1066 in England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeated the English army and killed King Harold II of England. In 1582, because of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. In 1773 the first recorded Ministry of Education, the Commission of National Education, was formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1882 the University of the Punjab was founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan. In 1884 George Eastman received a US patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. In 1926 Winnie-the-Pooh, by AA Milne was published. IN 1947 Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier when he flew the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California. In 1968 the first live telecast from a manned US spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7, and Jim Hines became the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds. In 1969 the UK introduced the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of the shilling as a unit of currency anywhere in the world. IN 1984 "Baby Fae" received a heart transplant from a baboon.
Quote of the day:
“When a situation develops gradually, no matter how weird that situation is, you get used to it.”
~ Andy Warhol,POPism
I work in the office with four males, of varying ages and ethnicity. And every single one of them are shrugging their shoulders and dismissing the brouhaha over touching, grabbing, kissing women. “Why bring it up now, why didn’t they just say something when it happened?” asks one. “Making a big todo over nothing, it’s all political” comments another. “MY daughter will put any man who tries that in his place pronto,” scoffs another. “Lots more important things to consider than locker room banter,” concludes the fourth. I don’t answer, just shake my head.
You see, they don’t worry about having strangers lean out of car windows to yell at you on the sidewalk “HEY! How’s your pussy?” -- they don’t remember how old they were when they learned that word had nothing to do with felines. They don’t have people telling them to “smile”. They don’t have to listen to a passersby loudly assess whether or not you would be worthy to suck on their genitals because you are a tub of lard, and speculate whether or not you swallow or are a spitter. They haven’t felt the dread when passing a group of men, knowing that you are going endure catcalls and degrading names. They haven’t been dismissed as over-reacting because you “must be on the rag”, or laughed at for “raging hormonal imbalances”. They haven’t had a co-worker tell you that you should dress differently, wear a wig, work out more because then you would look better to them. They have never worked next to another employee, doing the exact same job, and been paid less, or have it assumed that you will take minutes and get coffee. They have never had someone feel free to cop a feel just because you happen to be in the same constricted space with them. None of these things are an unusual experience if you are female and yes, all of those things have happened to me, more than once.
My co-workers are good men; I respect them and they treat me with both consideration and respect – but they do not get it because male privilege is that insidious and culturally embedded. IMSNHO, that is why the recent revelations about sexual misconduct don’t seem to have had much impact on a voter base that has already made up its mind.
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